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Screens and Room Dividers For Sale
Lacquered 4 Panel Screen
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Wonderfully shaped room divider screen. Painted a rich shade of burgundy. !980’s vintage. Approximately 78 inches tall. The sections are different widths, 14, 9 16 and 12 inches wide...
Category
1980s Unknown Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
French Art Deco tambour screen room-divider
By Alvar Aalto
Located in Oakland, CA
French Art Deco tambour room divider / folding screen crafted of heart pine, can be coiled and shaped into multiple positions to fit the space as needed. Possibly Baumann et Fils, Me...
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Pine
Vintage French Rococo Hand Painted Four-Panel Dressing Screen
Located in Harlingen, TX
A lovely antique four panel hand painted French rococo dressing screen depicting a mounted rider approaching a seated woman, young lady and a shepherd dog in a woodland country setti...
Category
Mid-20th Century Rococo Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Gold Leaf
Pair of birch art deco pedestals
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Pair of birch art deco pedestals circa 1930.
Good quality pair of Swedish deco period pedestal stands in birch.
Dark stained birch. Round top with a diameter of 10 inches, support...
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Mid-20th Century Swedish Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Birch
Wicker Screen Room Divider
Located in New York, NY
A blonde/light tan wicker four (4) screen room divider with brass hardware. Very good condition as shown in images and video. Dimensions: Full Width 70.63", Height 71.63", Depth 1". ...
Category
Early 2000s Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Ornate Decorative Wrought Iron Four Fold Room Divider Screen c 1950/70's
Located in New York, NY
Exceptional ornate four fold wrought iron screen, room divider constructed of four sections each with a cathedral style top over rectangular panels.
The iron is worked into repea...
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Mid-20th Century Spanish Rococo Revival Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wrought Iron
Gracie Style Six Panel Chinoiserie Lacquered Wallpaper Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Elegant six panel lacquered wallpaper screen made in the style and manner of Gracie. The screen is two-sided and depicts an idyllic flora and fauna l...
Category
20th Century Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
French Modern Poillerat Style Wrought Iron Room Divider Screen
Located in Houston, TX
French Modern Poillerat Style Wrought Iron Room Divider Screen.
This stunning French Art Deco style wrought four panel iron screen in the manner of Gilbert Poillerat is expertly craf...
Category
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wrought Iron
Pair of Chinese Antique Screens, Doors, Orchids and Pomegranates
Located in Somis, CA
This is a pair of beautiful, early 20th century Chinese antique door screens. The top section is formed by a Chinese longevity pattern, which are c...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Chinese Six Panel Inlaid Folding Screen of Courtyards & Cavalry, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This magnificent six-panel Chinese folding screen depicts a lively battle scene with gilt brushwork and fine inlay of soapstone, agate, jade, jasper, mother-of-pearl and bone. The sc...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Multi-gemstone
Rattan Bamboo Room Divider Screen Paravant Italy, circa 1965
Located in Vienna, AT
Rattan bamboo room divider screen Paravant Italy, circa 1965
Ornamental handmade screen from 3 panels made from bent bamboo and rattan pieces held together with leather 'clamps'. ...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Bamboo, Rattan
Victorian Style Needlepoint Flower & Tree Tapestry Upholstered Four Panel Screen
Located in Germantown, MD
A Victorian Style Needlepoint Flowers & Trees Tapestry Upholstered Four Panel Screen. Measures 78" in width, 68" in height. Good antique condition.
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Victorian Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Tapestry, Hardwood
Charlotte Perriand Paravent Ambassade Screen by Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Paravent Ambassade indoors screen designed by Cassina in collaboration with Ginori 1735 and Pernette Perriand-Barsac.
Manufactured in Italy by Cassina.
...
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2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Porcelain
Neoclassical Style Lacquered Five Panel Screen Fragment
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Dramatic Asian five panel screen fragment of a larger painted screen. The screen features a lacquered canvas over a wood frame depicting neoclassical style column architecture with f...
Category
20th Century Chinese Neoclassical Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Early 20th century Indian screen
Located in Cesena, FC
Early 20th century Indian screen
Early twentieth-century Indian screen, polychrome.
India partition, composed of four hand-painted panels.
Richly decorated with fretwork and hand-pa...
Category
Early 19th Century Indian Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Paint
Butterfly Fire Screen in Aged Gold
Located in Dallas, TX
The butterfly fireplace screen combines movement, grace, and charm. Each butterfly is formed with individual, hand bent iron wings. This dra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Iron
Japanese antique 2 wood panel folding room divider, Byobu, folding screen
Located in 常陸大宮市, JP
Wooden room divider, partition, made with a pair of antique window shutters used at Kominka (old traditional style house) in Ibaraki pref., Jap...
Category
1920s Japanese Primitive Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Cedar
Bamboo and Rattan Screen circa 1970
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A bamboo and rattan screen circa 1970.
4 panels 178 cm high and 48 cm wide
total width: 192 cm
Category
1970s European Adam Style Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Bamboo, Rattan
Gold and Black Lacquered Four-Panel Folding Screen with Birds and Blossoms
Located in Yonkers, NY
This vintage Chinese folding screen features four arched panels, richly lacquered in deep black and decorated with intricate gilt motifs. The front face showcases a luminous composit...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Monumental 10-Panel Coromandel Black Lacquer Folding Screen
Located in San Francisco, CA
Monumental 10-panel 10 foot tall coromandel black lacquered folding screen. One side depicting an elaborate bird landscape with a golden pheas...
Category
Mid-20th Century Hong Kong Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Hand-Painted Four-Panel Chinese Screen with Garden Pavilion and Peony Motifs
Located in Yonkers, NY
A four-panel folding screen depicting a serene Chinese garden landscape, this piece brings a sense of depth and tranquility to any interior. The detailed hand-painted scene captures ...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Paper
19th Century French Hand Painted Room Divider 4 Panel Leather Screen
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fantastic leather four panel room divider hand painted and hand crafted screen from the latter part of the 19th century France. Hand painted cherubs with floral accents in outstandin...
Category
1870s French Empire Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Liberty & Co. Glasgow style Arts & Crafts walnut three fold screen
Located in London, GB
Liberty and Co. A Glasgow Style Arts and Crafts walnut three fold screen with pink roses and green leaf decoration to the upper three stain glass panels.
See Liberty's Furniture 1875...
Category
Early 1900s British Arts and Crafts Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Walnut
Mid-Century Room Divider by L. Volak for Drevopodnik Holesov, 1960s
By Ludvik Volak
Located in Żory, PL
This room divider was designed by Ludvik Volák for Dřevopodnik Holešov in the 1960s.
Made of bent, veneered plywood. The height is adjustable from 259 to 268cm.
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Plywood
H. Johanssen, Three-panel Screen with Birds and Vines, Scandinavian, 1929
Located in New York, NY
A three-panel screen in painted wood, each panel depicts exotic birds amongst highly stylized flowering vines on a gold ground. The more muted reverse side is painted with a geometri...
Category
1920s Scandinavian Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Sculptural Three-Panel Midcentury Bamboo Screen Room Divider
Located in Den Haag, NL
Sculptural three-panel midcentury bamboo screen room divider.
Category
Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Bamboo
Luxury Lighted Planter on Wheels – Modern Room Divider 1960 Italy
Located in Oirlo, LI
Small note: Plants are not included for delivery outside of Europe due to import and export regulations.
Elegant Planter with Lighting – Perfect as a Room Divider or Statement Piece...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Metal, Brass
Unique Art Nouveau Screen Handcarved Leather & Oakwood, Denmark, 1910s
Located in Odense, DK
Amazing unique screen or room divider made in Denmark in the early 20th century. The screen is made from hand carved leather with medieval courtly motif typical for the late romantic...
Category
1910s Danish Art Nouveau Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Leather, Oak
20th Century Carved Multi-Wood Marquetry Four-Panel Palatial Floor Screen
Located in Germantown, MD
An impressive 20th Century hand Carved Multi Hardwood Marquetry Four-Panel Palatial Floor Screen. This original piece of art displays class and finesse in the making of pierced hand ...
Category
20th Century Unknown Other Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Satinwood, Walnut, Hardwood, Rosewood
'Guá' Modern and Organic Folding Screen in Brazilian Hardwood by Knót Artesanal
Located in Paraty, Rio de Janeiro
Guá is a contemporary version of a traditional screen, the result of a collaboration between Knót Artesanal and Mexican artist Patricia Sada. The straight lines and natural wood tone...
Category
2010s Brazilian Organic Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Organic Modern Italian Black Pink Blue Circle Murano Glass Room Divider/Screen
Located in New York, NY
This customizable Murano glass curtain in black, amethyst, clear, gray and aqua tints worked with avventurina, a contemporary work of art as a very decorative solution for a screen o...
Category
2010s Italian Organic Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Metal, Aluminum, Brass, Nickel
Chinese export eight panel hand painted coromandel screen
Located in Allentown, PA
This is a mid 20th century hand painted eight panel coromandel screen. This Lacquered screen is incised with colorful scenery depicting idyllic Court life in a palace complex. Finall...
Category
1950s Chinese Chinese Export Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Japanese 6 Panel Gold Screen With Cranes
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Exceptional Vintage Japanese wall 6 panel acreen gold with cranes in a landscape. Made in 3 d relief dimensions style. Great condition.
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Japonisme Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Decorative Wrought Iron, Gilt Folding Screen, Italy, 1950s
Located in Antwerp, BE
A beautiful wrought iron gilded decorative folding screen, room-divider made of 3 panels each 51 cm width/height 172 cm, made with craftsmanship, a decorative pearl in an Antique as ...
Category
1950s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wrought Iron
1930s Art Déco 4-Pannel Straw Marquetry Folding Screen by Comte S.A., Argentina
Located in North Miami, FL
1930s Art Déco 4-pannel straw marquetry folding screen designed by Jean-Michel Frank for Comte S.A., Argentina
By: Comte S.A., Jean-Michel Frank
Material: wood, straw, metal, brass,...
Category
1930s Argentine Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Metal, Brass, Copper, Zinc
French Art Deco tambour screen room-divider
By Alvar Aalto
Located in Oakland, CA
French Art Deco tambour room divider / folding screen crafted of heart pine, can be coiled and shaped into multiple positions to fit the space as needed. Possibly Baumann et Fils, Me...
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Pine
Chinese Qing Eight Panel Screen Early 19th Century Coromandel
Located in Miami, FL
Rare and exquisite Chinese Qing Eight Panel Screen Early 19th Century Coromandel
Step back in time with this captivating museum quality early 19th Century eight panel Coromandel sc...
Category
Early 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Paint
Korean Asian Large Long Life Byobu Byeongpung Shipjangsaengdo Ten Panel Screen
Located in Studio City, CA
An absolutely gorgeous, monumental, exceptionally large Korean ten-panel Sipjangsaengdo Byobu folding screen depicting the ten symbols of longevity—sun, mountain, water, rock, cloud,...
Category
Mid-20th Century Korean Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Fabric, Wood, Paint, Paper
Triple Cubes Wall Lamp
Located in Paris, FR
Wall Lamp Triple Cubes with structure
in solid brass and gold-plated finish.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Gold Plate, Brass
Tri-Fold Opaque Lacquer Folding Screen / Room Divider
Located in Newburgh, NY
Sculptural, handcrafted, self-supporting screen for use as a stand-alone or combined to create a larger privacy wall. The tri-fold design can be oriented with the form tapering eithe...
Category
2010s American Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Hardwood
Rare Four Panel “Coromandel Screen” by Karl Springer
Located in Palm Springs, CA
An Incredible 1970 rare four panel “Coromandel” Screen by Karl Springer.
The front design is hand carved and painted with black and coral...
Category
1970s American Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Pair of Four-Panel Reversible French Chinoiserie Coromandel Screens Paris, 1920s
Located in Miami, FL
Eight-Panel Reversible Chinese Coromandel Screen
Pair of French chinoiserie screens, Paris, 1920s
This French chinoiserie screens from the ...
Category
Early 20th Century French Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Mother-of-Pearl
Chinese Export Four Panel Lacquered Coromandel Dressing Screen Room Divider
Located in Doylestown, PA
Chinese export smaller scale four-panel lacquered dressing screen room divider with hand-painted decoration on both sides.
One side depicts a charming continuous pavilion scene with...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Metal
Restored Mid-Century Room Divider by L. Volak for Drevopodnik Holesov, 1960s
By Ludvik Volak
Located in Żory, PL
This room divider was designed by Ludvik Volák for Dřevopodnik Holešov in the 1960s.
Made of bent, veneered plywood. This room divider has been completely restored, varnished in a sa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Plywood
Black Lacquer Screen with Cranes and Gold Leaf, Four-Panel Room Divider
Located in Yonkers, NY
A striking display of artistry, this Chinese lacquered folding screen showcases a mesmerizing composition of red-crowned cranes in flight against a golden backdrop. The four-panel construction features a dynamic arrangement of cranes, their detailed plumage accentuated by subtly raised lacquer outlines, lending a dimensional quality to the artwork. The luminous gold ground, possibly applied with gold leaf or gilded foil, creates a radiant contrast to the deep black lacquer frame. Delicate hand-painted floral motifs soften the edges, introducing a refined decorative element.
On the reverse, an equally elegant painted landscape unfolds, featuring songbirds perched among flowering branches and lotus blossoms. This dual-sided design enhances versatility, allowing the screen to function as both a decorative statement piece and a functional room divider.
Whether placed as a dramatic backdrop in a dining room, used as an ornate headboard...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
French Renaissance Revival Folding Three-Panel Screen with Hand-Painted Motifs
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French Renaissance Revival folding three-panel screen with hand-painted Grotesque motifs and inset glass from the 19th century. Reminding us of motifs that one would see on the ceiling of the Uffizi gallery in Florence, this French painted screen...
Category
19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Glass, Wood, Canvas
Rattan Bamboo Room Divider Screen Paravant Italy, circa 1965
Located in Vienna, AT
Rattan bamboo room divider screen Paravant Italy, circa 1965
Ornamental handmade screen from 3 panels made from bent bamboo and rattan pieces held together with leather 'clamps'. ...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Bamboo, Rattan
Japanese antique Yoshino Cedar 2-panel folding room divider Byobu folding screen
Located in 常陸大宮市, JP
Wooden room divider, partition, made with a pair of antique window shutters used at Kominka (old traditional style house) in Nara pref., Japan. It's new ...
Category
1920s Japanese Primitive Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Cedar
Art Deco Style Wood Room Divider in Walnut, Maple, Lacquer Asymmetrical Screens
Located in Porto, PT
Art Deco Style Wood Room Divider in Walnut, Maple, and Lacquer Asymmetrical Screens
The Mikado Room Divider features asymmetrical panels that create a playfulness between the wood m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Ash, Birdseye Maple, Maple, Walnut, Lacquer
Poilerat Art Deco Iron and Brass Curved Panel Screen
Located in Houston, TX
French Art Deco Gilbert Poillerat screen. A hand wrought iron two part screen with gracious sinuous curves, brass accent detail and verdigris coloring.
Overall dimensions:
Left p...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass, Wrought Iron
Japanese Asian Large Edo Six-Panel Folding Byobu Screen Landscape Monkeys Trees
Located in Studio City, CA
An absolutely gorgeous, wonderfully composed six-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen/room divider depicting a family of playful monkeys among the blooming trees and mountainous lands...
Category
Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Gold Leaf
Ombra Screen by Chiara Provasi
Located in Milan, IT
An exercise in visual harmony and artistic sensibility, this decorative wooden screen will transform any interior with its dynamic character. The rectangular silhouette features four...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Textile
Pine Wood Room Divider by S.N.S.A. , France 1930s.
Located in The Hague, NL
Large 1920s Tambour screen by the French manufacturer S.N.S.A. Made in stained pitchpine.
Its flexible structure allows it to stand freely and shape curves, perfect for a dressing ro...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Pine
French Tapestry 3 Panel Room Carved Wood Divider/Screen Glass Window
Located in Clifton Forge, VA
This is a lovely three panel French provincial style screen with a carved crest and a shaped glass "window" in each panel and beautiful tapestries of a courting couple in a different...
Category
Late 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Tapestry, Glass, Wood
Antique Chinese Four-Panel Folding Screen
Located in New York, NY
Handcrafted in the Early 20th Century, this antique Chinese folding screen features intricately carved designs on both sides. Beautiful...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
20C Anglo Indian Style Double Sided Profusely Inlaid 4 Panel Screen
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING AN EXCEPTIONAL 20C Anglo Indian Style Double Sided Profusely Inlaid 4 Panel Screen or Room Divider.
Made in Hoshiarpur, India, circa 1960-80.
Made of ‘teak’ wood in the ...
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20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Ebony, Plastic, Teak
Transition Room Divider
Located in Eindhoven, NL
This poetic room divider has four textural panels echoing the change of seasons. The harmonious color scheme is striking in its simplicity and in the att...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Jacquard
Three panel folding screen with French costume prints, c. 1900-30
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Three panel, double hinged, folding screen mounted with early 19th century French decoupaged costume prints of aristocratic women of the 14th century by copperplate engraver George J...
Category
Early 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Paint, Paper
Four panel silk Asian signed screen
Located in San Francisco, CA
Four panel silk Asian signed screen with hand-painted egrets
72 x 36
Category
20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Silk
Early 20th Century Indian Polychrome Four Panel Folding Screen
Located in San Francisco, CA
Early 20th Century Indian Polychrome Four Panel Folding Screen
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Teak
Korean Asian Large 8-Panel Silk Embroidered Byobu Bird Butterfly Screen, 1900s
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous early to midcentury Korean embroidered eight-panel screen depicting scenic nature motifs of flowering trees, playful birds, and floating b...
Category
Mid-20th Century Korean Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Paper, Silk
Interesting Double-Sided School Blackboard with Josco Brand System, circa 1950
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Interesting double-sided school blackboard with JOSCO brand system circa 1950.
Good condition, the black paint is worn, it may need to be repainted.
It is double-sided, and the panels slide thanks to a pulley system...
Category
Mid-20th Century Belgian Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Beech
Brazilian Modern Room Divider in Hardwood & Leather by Sergio Rodrigues, 1960s
Located in New York, NY
Available today, this spectacular Mid-Century Modern room divider in hardwood and leather painted in blue & red by Sergio Rodrigues made in the sixties is nothing less than spectacular!
The room divider features three panels made in Brazilian Rosewood, known as Jacaranda. The panels are draped in painted leather in Blue & Red. The wood has been restored and displays vibrant yellow veins. The leather is original and while the color is faded and has some scratches, this is precisely what gives the piece the WOW factor.
The piece is showcased in our gallery next to a Sergio Rodrigues theater sofa...
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Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Leather, Hardwood
Pace Five-Panel Glass and Brass Hinge Room Divider or Screen
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Probably a Leon Rosen for Pace designed magnificent screen or room divider. It wouldn't be a surprise if this was a custom project. each panel is approximate 23.75 inches in width an...
Category
1980s American Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Japanese Indigo Panel with Crest Motif in Wooden Frame
Located in Yonkers, NY
A striking Japanese indigo textile panel, framed for display, featuring a bold crest-like motif rendered in deep blue and soft ivory. At the ce...
Category
Late 20th Century Japanese Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Cotton, Wood
Chinese Coromandel Four Panel Screen Room Devider Landscape Scene
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
1707 Chinese coromandel four panel screen featuring figures,birds ,flowers engaged in leasure activities in a garden setting
Folded dimensions W 16.5" 72" H 3.5"D
Category
1950s Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Antique Mexican Hand painted Olinalá Screen Divider
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Antique Mexican Hand painted Olinalá Screen Divider
Circa 1930. We offer this rare and beautiful Antique Mexican Hand painted Olinalá Screen Divider made in Olinalá Mexico.
About Ol...
Category
1930s Mexican Folk Art Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Large Antique Coromandel or Kuancai Lacquer Screen
Located in Richmond, London
A superbly decorative six-panel lacquered 'Coromandel' screen, exquisitely carved and hand-painted with oriental figures, flowers and exotic beasts on a dark brown background, in the traditional 17th century manner.
Late 19th – early 20th century.
Why we like it
We like its impressive proportions which make it perfect for a feature wall, and the exquisite quality of decoration. The subtlety of colours lends a 'soft' look to the piece. The central motif depicts a scene set in the gardens of a Han dynasty palace, while the outer borders are decorated with the “one hundred antiques” motif interspersed with floral arrangements. In this regard, the present screen not only conveys auspicious meanings but also demonstrate the owner’s fine scholarly taste.
History
The term 'Coromandel', which is used to describe this particular type of lacquer technique (kuancai), is rather misleading. In the 18th century it was used commercially to indicate the place from which these objects were shipped to England through the East India Companies, and had no reference to China, the place of their origin. Similarly, Chinese painted wallpaper was often called 'India paper' in historic documants.
The kuancai lacquer technique, literally meaning “cut out colour” and found almost exclusively on screens, emerged in the 16th century to serve the domestic market. The iconographic elements were carved through the built-up coats of dark lacquer and filled with pigments and gold. Seventeenth century examples usually consisted of twelve panels, and were often employed in entrance halls or as room dividers or windscreens for gardens and terraces. They were often commissioned as gifts and depicted court scenes, episodes from the world of the immortals, panoramic or landscape views and auspicious symbols. This type of lacquerware was flourishing during the reign of the Kangxi emperor (1662-1722) and saw a revival in the 19th century.
Stylistically the present screen may be compared with the twelve-panel lacquer screen from the Kangxi period in the Victoria and Albert Museum illustrated by W. De Kesel and G. Dhont in Coromandel Lacquer Screens, ill. 23, pps 36-37.
Such luxurious items were popular in England during the height of fashion for oriental exoticism, called chinoiserie in Europe. In the 20th century, Coromandel screens still remained a staple in the European interior design. Coco Chanel had a collection of 32 rare Coromandel screens, which she proudly displayed in her home at 31 Rue Cambom, Paris. She one...
Category
Early 20th Century Asian Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Art Nouveau Georg Hulbe Tooled Leather Three Panel Screen, Sailboat Motif, 1900
By Georg Hulbe
Located in New York, NY
Large Georg Hulbe Art Nouveau tooled leather three panel screen
The central panels featuring a Sailing motif with superbly detailed tooled leather seagulls upper panels and classic ...
Category
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Three-Panel Folding Screen/Room Divider, 20th Century
Located in Southampton, NY
Three-Panel Folding Screen/Room Divider, 20th Century
This three-panel folding screen features a simple, clean design with a quality made dark wood frame. The top third of each pane...
Category
20th Century Unknown Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Folding screen in painted canvas, French work, 1830
Located in Paris, FR
Seven-leaf painted canvas screen depicting a lakeside with a few sailboats on the water, a wooded path animated by characters, a horseman watching over a herd of cows drinking, an op...
Category
1830s French Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Canvas
Broadway Marble Style with Gold Leaf Folding Screen
Located in Paris, FR
Folding Screen Broadway Marble Style divided in
six panels, two in golden leaf,
one in black lacquered, and 3 others in resin marble
in grey and gold finish.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Gold Leaf
A Decorative Screen Ca '1980's In Art Deco Style
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
A very interesting Art Deco style screen-city skyline, in black/gold lacquer, ca' 1980's. Folds flat-each of the four panels is 18"w, 72"h, 1.25" thick. Brass capped feet, back of th...
Category
1980s Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Vintage Screens and Antique Room Dividers on 1stDibs: Japanese Screens, Chinese Screens and Art Deco Screens for Sale
Whether they are implemented as decorative accents or makeshift partitions to ensure privacy, antique and vintage folding screens and room dividers easily introduce sophistication and depth to any space in your home.
The earliest examples of folding screens are said to have originated in China and go back at least as far as the Han dynasty. Screens of the era were heavy structures made of wood and had hinges of cloth or leather. They were adorned with elaborate landscape paintings that were typically created on silk or paper canvases and applied directly to the screen’s panels afterward. Just as they had been in the 20th century and today, the folding screens then were recognized for both their practical and purely decorative properties.
Japanese room-divider screens were also decorated with paintings but constructed to be lightweight and mobile. They took on considerable event-based importance when the structures gained popularity in the East Asian country, as the folding screens were used in performing arts such as concerts, tea ceremonies and more. Later, artists elsewhere warmed to folding screens and sought to create their own.
In European countries such as France, where they were known as paravent, folding screens began to materialize in apartments in Paris, gaining favor with the likes of pioneering couturier Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, who is said to have accrued more than 30 and used them as a precursor to what we now know as wallpaper.
On 1stDibs, find a wide range of antique and vintage folding screens and room dividers, which, given their history, may do a better job of bringing people and cultures together in your home than sectioning off a space. Search by material to find options in metal, fabric or wood, or browse by style for mid-century modern designs and examples from the Art Deco era.